Open Design Engine

An interesting (and somewhat tardy) question came up the other day during a demo of ODE, namely "What browsers should the site officially support (and by extension what browsers must ODE tests be run in before a version can be accepted as ready for production use)?" By extension, this also brings up the question of how we should be testing (currently features are manually tested, but the test plan is not rigorously documented). Clearly these are questions we should have already addressed, but in the run up to just get features working, they got overlooked. So here we are answering them now.

To answer the question, we need to determine the combination of browsers, versions, and platforms we will test the site against at each release (and discuss the level of testing required to publish a release). Obviously, a larger list of supported browsers means greater access for users, but also means more complicated and longer testing. So, let's hash things out in this thread and see what we come up with (note, there is no mobile skin on the current version of ODE, so for now, we may want to skip testing on mobile devices).